TY - JOUR TI - REDUPLICATIVE SYLLABLES IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES AU - Piechnik, Iwona TI - REDUPLICATIVE SYLLABLES IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES AB - The article deals with the reduplications in Latin and in Romance languages. While in Latin there were only reduplications of monosyllables, Romance languages have a lot of polysyllabic (mostly disyllabic) reduplications. This development could arise due to a bigger expressivity of vulgar Latin mixed with vernacular languages and to their contacts with other languages: Germanic (mostly English and German), Celtic, Slavic, Turkic and Hungarian, in which the polysyllabic reduplication is the most common. VL - Tom 15 (2015) IS - Tom 15, Numer 1 PY - 2015 SN - 1732-8705 C1 - 2084-3917 SP - 30 EP - 55 DO - 10.4467/20843917RC.15.003.4000 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/romanica-cracoviensia/artykul/reduplicative-syllables-in-romance-languages KW - reduplication KW - repetition KW - doubling KW - Latin KW - Romance languages KW - monosyllables KW - polysyllables KW - syllables